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Falklands’ dispute expert named Argentine ambassador in Dublin
An expert in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute and professional diplomat has been accepted as the new Argentine ambassador in Ireland. Silvia Maria Merega has held important posts at the Organization of American States in Washington, before the European Union and at the Argentine embassy in the US. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAll that education and vast experience around the world.... I wonder how she will represent the Falklands issue?
May 27th, 2013 - 07:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1
May 27th, 2013 - 08:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0You think KFC would appoint someone to the Dublin post that doesn't parrot the party line? Being an Argie “expert” on the Falklands is easy, just ignore the facts and repeat the official whining from BA to anyone willing to listen.
“She graduated from ISEN in 1981 as top of the class and gold medal of her generation.”
May 27th, 2013 - 08:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0What's the betting all this still means she is incapable of basic referencing of historical documents and reading the UN Charter?
They have an expert??
May 27th, 2013 - 09:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well at least she will be able to learn a lot about how a more mature nation deals with the UK in a sovereignty dispute. Accepting the right to self-determination of the people of N.Ireland the Irish dropped their claim to sovereignty and jurisdiction of NI and now simply offer Irish citizenship to anyone on the island who wants it. They still consider unity a future aspiration but only by consent which at present does not exist. In a referendum >90% of the people in the Republic voted to support this outcome. As a result, relations between the 2 nations have never been better. Recently the Queen went to Dublin where she spoke Irish, and laid a wreath at the Republican memorial.
I think their expert would be our road cleaner.......
May 27th, 2013 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0I guess time will tell how this one plays out, lets hope she is better than the heckling diva sent to England who embarrassed herself and her country.
She will have little or no grasp on historical fact nor the principles of human rights, just Argentine propaganda then.
May 27th, 2013 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0@4 Redrow
May 27th, 2013 - 10:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good point. Will be interesting if the Falkland Islands issue is raised with her in a public or government forum and to see exactly what the Irish, who accept self determination and have come to terms with their history, think if she toes the official Argentine line.
”.........since August 2012, head of the Foreign Service Institute of the ministry, (ISEN) which is responsible for the formation of the new Argentine diplomats.......”- Sounds like something out of 1984 brain-washing department!
May 27th, 2013 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0The article says she is an expert in the Falklands dispute (I didn't know there was any dispute- the islands are a BOT- end of story) but an expert is able to consider all sides of a discussion and debate them rationally and objectively, not only one side of the argument, so she cannot be called an expert.
Another stunner.
May 27th, 2013 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0hope she's as good as Castro that will be funny
May 27th, 2013 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually Ms. Merega was a supporter, if not iniciator, of Di Tella's attempt to win the hearts and minds of the Falkland Islanders.
May 27th, 2013 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As in all sovereign states, the Argentine Cancilleria has it's own school for diplomats, called the Instituto del Servicio Extranjero Nacional (Foreign Service Institute, there is nothing 1984'ish about it. It just means that Ms. Merega is a professional diplomat as opposed to Alicia Castro and Ms. Nahon.
I would say that Ireland is lucky to have a professional diplomat representing Argentina, there are very few left in our foreign office!!!!!!!!
She will still follow the party line, do not trust a diplomat.
May 27th, 2013 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How can anyone who is supposedly that bright be so stupid as to accept her own governments propaganda. No doubt she will be soliciting her wares around Dublin for the whore of Babylon !
May 27th, 2013 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@11 Okay, she's a “professional”. So is a hooker. Does she know anything about facts, honesty, truth? The FACTS, honestly and truthfully presented, show the Falkland Islands to be British. As a signatory to the UN Charter, argieland should be doing everything it reasonably can to assist the Falkands to be an independent nation. Does it? Does it? It (argieland) alters its tactics almost on a daily basis. “You can be British.” “You can keep your laws and customs”. Argieland doesn't want to change anything! Except the “official” language. The side of the road where you drive. The “laws” that are “incompatible” with argie “laws”. The “educational” curriculum. The flag that flies says everything. The Falklands flag says that that the Falklands are free. Democratic. Associated with the UK. Supported. Protected. What's the alternative? Argie taxation. Argie “language”. Argie “norms”. Let the Islanders do what is right. Kill every argie! Logical approach. No argie is capable of telling the truth. They are brainless robots.
May 27th, 2013 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So she sends all the experts away and keeps the idiots at home,
May 27th, 2013 - 06:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@11
May 27th, 2013 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Actually Ms. Merega was a supporter, if not iniciator, of Di Tella's attempt to win the hearts and minds of the Falkland Islanders.”
OK, she must have more brains than the rest of the idiots who do their best to make the Islanders reject them even more.
I wonder whether she has actually looked into the principles of geographical proximity, the actual history surrounding the Islands instead of the 'we can claim the Islands from 1828, but the UK can't claim it from 1690' or actually read all of the UN's votes and principles on self determination that underpin the organisation ie the UN Charter?
If she has, I might actually be impressed by an Argentine politician even if she has a different viewpoint.
Good luck to her. Maybe it is an attempt at proper diplomacy by the back door.
May 27th, 2013 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@11 Pete Bog
May 28th, 2013 - 09:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Winning hearts and minds is fine but as we all know that the malvinas myth isjust that then unless she supports the true british historical account thren she is no expert at all.
How come Ireland get a professional diplomat and we get lumbered with a long-in-the-tooth air hostess with all the diplomatic skill of a cold kebab?
May 28th, 2013 - 10:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0I really hope that she doesn't try to justify the Argentine claim on the Falkland Islands to the Irish based on geographical proximity. Especially bearing in mind that the distance from Dublin to London is less than the distance between the Falkland Islands and Argentina.
@18
May 28th, 2013 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Winning hearts and minds is fine but as we all know that the Malvinas myth is just that then unless she supports the true British historical account then she is no expert at all.”
Correct Musky.
The Argentines don't do hearts and minds, they do gimme or else.
Their problem is that their 'or else' is mostly completely and utterly ineffectual.
Because as you say, the Malvinas is a myth.
16 Pete Bog (#)
May 28th, 2013 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0May 27th, 2013 - 06:43 pm
Pete, I'm sure Ms. Merega knows as well as I do that our official version of Falklands history is a whole load of lies produced by Perón in the 1940's. She is probably as pissed at our idiot president as I, and probably at least 30% of the Argentine population are, but she is a diplomat employed by a sovereign state and will support the foreign policy of our state however much she agrees or disagrees with that policy.
The same can be said for British diplomats faced with trying to justify Blairs support of Bush with regard to Iraq for example. The life of a diplomat must be exceedingly difficult!!!!!!
@11 Mind you, Simon, US State Department is filled with “professional” diplomats who have long held to the unnecessary ambiguity on the Island's status. The Falklands are not Taiwan but you wouldn't know otherwise looking at State's hemming and hawing. It's good to know that she was onboard when when there was a thaw in FI and AR relations but the diplomatic corps' “neck” still has to go in the direction CFK walks, it's not a giraffe.
May 28th, 2013 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@19, sending political hacks who have close ties to their leaderships to critical posts is regrettably nothing new. They weigh the cost benefit of a solid technocrat (Merega?) who knows how to do her job but may not immediately have CFK's ear over gal pal (Castro) who can chat amongst each other for hours but beclowns herself on Newsnight.
I hope “some time” a panel of “expert” for the discussion in Buenos Aires or Port Stanly over Malvinas issue.
May 28th, 2013 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But I fear that many people are interested stop this.
Yes the Argentine government stops this.
May 28th, 2013 - 09:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The LAST thing they would ever want is a panel of their “experts” arguing or discussing point for point their version of history with anyone.
”I hope “some time” a panel of “expert” for the discussion in Buenos Aires (Fair Winds) or Port Stanly (it's Stanley, not Port Stanley) over Malvinas issue.
May 28th, 2013 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But I fear that many people are interested stop this.“
Yes the Argentinians want to stop this-well pointed out Malvi-they do not want to discuss history in detail. But I would be personally delighted if Silverland did discuss the Falklands issue.
@24
”The LAST thing they would ever want is a panel of their “experts” arguing or discussing point for point their version of history with anyone.”
This is the 'specificity' of the situation.
Really, I want a debate among experts.
May 29th, 2013 - 01:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0We here, by this means we discussed every day. So why not do it with academics? good idea, true Pete?
Ah pardon Port Stanley...very bad English. In the school my qualification was 5 or 6 points.
@26
May 29th, 2013 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0I can't argue with a debate amongst experts as long as it is two sided and involves careful scrutiny of treaties (ie all the wording, not cherry picked examples), and historical documents, plus proper historical context and UN policy documents, (all of them not just cherry picked examples), not emotional nationalist tirades.
Sounds like such a debate is perfect for the ICJ. Perhaps Argentina should submit a case.
May 29th, 2013 - 01:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm sure that an Argentine delegation, spending lots of money, would be made most welcome in Port Stanley, but why would they want to go to Ontario again?
May 29th, 2013 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0An expert in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute and professional diplomat has been accepted as the new Argentine ambassador in Ireland!!!!!!!!!!!! what the fuck!!!! We all know that Argentina does not have any experts on the Falkland dispute so whats all this about? Frigging lying Argentinians again
May 30th, 2013 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Great Country Republic of Ireland.
May 31st, 2013 - 02:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Against the noses of London, declared unilateral independence politics and liberation of English tyranny. Him sent the king to fuck (or queen, do I care) of England, in a bloody fight. I hope it continues Scotland.
Really, deserved to Argentina send someone prepared and career.
Long live the Republic of Ireland and the Almirante Brown.
#31
May 31st, 2013 - 09:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0What a load of bollocks. Google translator at it's best !
You really don't have a clue what you are talking about.
The Scots dislike you as much as the English, Welsh and Irish do !
I could add many more countries to this list without a problem.
Do you really think Argentina has many friends ?
Is she more of an expert in matters Falklands/Malvinas than Alicia Castro? Is she more of a diplomat than Alicia Castro?
May 31st, 2013 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is there much she can do in Dublin to make the waters muddy?
@31
Jun 01st, 2013 - 08:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0”Great Country Republic of Ireland2
Correct.
You will find that people in UK are glad that Ireland achieved self determination, something that Imperialist Argentina denies to others.
You needed a load of Brits to help you in the 19th century-including Pinedos's sailors that refused to fight Onslow.
The UP depended on so many non-UP born European implants to help them.
The implants were also useful in massacring all those indigenous Argentine people as well.
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